Graduate Solicitor Apprentice
Unfortunately, road traffic accidents are inevitable and happen every single day across the world. According to Brake, The Road Safety Charity, five people lose their life on the road in the UK each day, and 82 are seriously injured. When you have been involved in a car accident that wasn’t your fault, you may be able to claim compensation – like our client, who was involved in a head-on collision whilst driving his HVG vehicle.
Our client was an HGV driver, who was driving on the road when he was in a collision with an oncoming car. At the time, the oncoming car was trying to overtake another car and hit our clients’ vehicle head on. Our client sustained a number of injuries to his neck, wrist, lower back and also some psychological injuries. Through no fault of his own, our client endured lifechanging psychological injuries from this collision, and it had a big impact on his life.
After our client had received all of the medical treatment that was required, the reality of the financial impact of this incident started to hit home. Sadly, it would be unlikely that he would be able to get back behind the wheel for some weeks, which would result in a loss of wages and change of life compared to how it was prior to the accident.
Our client then reached out to our specialist personal injury team at Simpson Millar who were able to guide him through the process of making a personal injury compensation claim.
From the start of the claim, one of our personal injury solicitors engaged with the defendant's legal team to speed up the process for our clients benefit. The goal was to complete the claim swiftly and alleviate the financial stress he'd been grappling with since the accident.
The defendant’s legal team said that the driver who had crashed into our client’s vehicle was at fault, which meant that the next thing for us to do once medical evidence had been obtained was to negotiate a fair and reasonable settlement for our client.
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Amy is a Graduate Solicitor Apprentice within our Personal injury department, based in our Manchester office.
She helps clients who have sustained injuries resulting from accidents at work and accidents in public places to recover compensation for the injuries they have sustained.
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